Lots has been said within these servers on finding ways to say new exciting correct things. Or correcting things many think are right, but didn’t know were actually wrong. This is a relentlessly optimistic perspective. I have gotten grand mileage by merely trying to hold back from saying or acting on information or ideas I know are wrong, as opposed to worrying about thinking better, or not making mistakes, or being more rational when I am concerned with the truth. This other part is the meaty part, the intense part—the struggle to stop mouthing the words, to stop myself from willingly burning more money or time.
I think this perspective is appealing and useful advice, but only up to a point. At some point you get diminishing returns from ceasing to punch yourself in the face, as it were, and you find you can’t do the things that matter to you without sticking your neck out and risking being wrong by trying to say something new that might be correct.
I find nothing disagreeable in your post other than what I read as a sentiment that maybe just stop saying wrong things and you can improve. Sometimes you’ve already stopped doing that so much that you have to start saying some wrong things.
I think this perspective is appealing and useful advice, but only up to a point. At some point you get diminishing returns from ceasing to punch yourself in the face, as it were, and you find you can’t do the things that matter to you without sticking your neck out and risking being wrong by trying to say something new that might be correct.
I find nothing disagreeable in your post other than what I read as a sentiment that maybe just stop saying wrong things and you can improve. Sometimes you’ve already stopped doing that so much that you have to start saying some wrong things.
(For what it’s worth, my comment basically comes down to saying don’t forget about the law of equal and opposite advice.)